Good for you. I too am happy to build from source. Does not mean all users should be expected to want to do it or know how to. It is simply unrealistic to expect all linux users to be techies. There millions of of linux users who do not want to compile anything.

Good for you. I too am happy to build from source. Does not mean all users should be expected to want to do it or know how to. It is simply unrealistic to expect all linux users to be techies. There millions of of linux users who do not want to compile anything.

I agree with you, I just think they have bigger fish to fry. Sorry my first post didn't express that.

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but how do you force anyone to do anything? It's far from ideal, but right now non-technical users either have to trust me (and Canonical) or build themselves. Being that I'm a DD with upload access to the entire debian and ubuntu archive, I think there is some reason to trust me - but I wouldn't fault anyone that doesn't. My ppa is to the point that it is updated with four commands, and DSL could just take it over:

If you all can put together a pull request for a script that will package linux binaries for release then I am sure DAC Sun will use it. The issue right now is that releases are coming out daily and building for 3x platforms is 50% more work. I think that linux users can either build from source or wait until the first "stable" release is out and binaries are produced for it.

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ok ... the term "forcing" was chosen unwisely .. no one can force them .. but we can show them that (at least for some platforms) a binary is quickly made

that would be great, and I think we have enough people that if DSL just tells us what system they want to use (gitian, self-hosted and signed PPAs, their own system) we as a community can provide them with scripts that just work and update whatever they choose.